Project Listing
- Crisman Institute Compiled Project List
- Crisman Institute Active Research Projects (14kb pdf)
- Crisman Institute Completed Research Projects (33kb pdf)
- 2009 Bibliography of Completed and Ongoing Research (47kb pdf)
Research Efforts
The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering conducts research under the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research, the Global Petroleum Research Institute, several research consortia, and individual arrangements with faculty members.
The Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research
The Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research is dedicated to solving problems of major interest to industry and government. The Institute conducts its efforts in four research Centers:
- The Halliburton Center for Unconventional Resources
- The Chevron Center for Well Construction and Production
- The Schlumberger Center for Reservoir Description and Dynamics
- The Center for Energy, Environment, and Transportation Innovation
Industry and governmental representatives help identify problems of major significance and support projects of particular interest to them through membership at the Institute, Center, or Project level. Additionally, membership provides seed money for identification and initiation of research into additional problems facing the industry.
Our faculty have decades of experience in technology development for petroleum resources. The Crisman Institute combines the talents of the faculty into four research Centers that can continue the technology development required by industry.
The focus of each center will be to develop technology and processes to reduce the finding and development costs in petroleum reservoirs. These costs can be reduced by developing technologies that either reduce the costs involved in the application of existing technologies or that increase the reserves per completion as a result of better technology. We expect to address both the costs and the ultimate recovery per completion during the research efforts of this Institute.
Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI)
The Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) is the managing partner of a Cooperative effort to conduct critical research in the development of petroleum technology. Research findings will lead to the application of new and innovative technologies in petroleum exploration and production to address the increasing demand for cost-effective production and enhanced recovery.
As leading producers of petroleum engineers and petroleum technology, The Texas A&M University System, through GPRI, is uniquely positioned to have a direct impact on the quality of education and research in an area of vital economic importance to the world.
Research Consortia
Several of our faculty direct joint industry projects that research topics of interest to the professor and to industry supporters. These consortia set their own guidelines for membership, meetings, and deliverables. Existing consortia are studying applications of streamline simulation, enhanced recovery of heavy oil, and improved recovery from naturally fractured reservoirs.
Other Projects
Several faculty members develop and maintain individual research programs that may involve collaboration among several departments, universities, or agencies. In some cases, faculty supervise unfunded projects by graduate students who are interested in a specific problem not currently being addressed by industry sponsors.